Lopped Off Quotes

#1. They know that ten heads lopped off will destroy them, but we are a free people; we have as many heads as we have people, and in a time of need leaders pop up among us like mushrooms.

John Steinbeck

#2. The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

Jonathan Swift

#3. If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

Andrew Johnson

#4. I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.

Richard Linklater

#5. Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your blows; it will cost the lives of millions of your brothers.

Jean-Paul Marat

#6. A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.

Ivan Turgenev

#7. It is certainly not true that the population can be easily divided into those who lead healthy lifestyles, and those who do not: most people's patterns are mixed, with both good and bad areas of life.

Mildred Blaxter

#8. Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion of my childhood ends forever. I see what poets are.

Hal Porter

#9. Miss Sarah Pocket, whom I now saw to be a little dry brown corrugated old woman, with a small face that might have been made of walnut shells ...

Charles Dickens

#10. The possibility of the dream is our joy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Fast isn't turning us into Masters of the Universe, It's turning us into Cheech and Chong.

Carl Honore

#12. To me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a little dirt at my door, may with impunity drive by it half-a-dozen calves, with their tails lopped close to their bodies and their hinder parts covered with blood ...

Lord Chesterfield

#13. I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about.

August Wilson

#14. I tell you, Madame, if one gave birth to a heart on a plate, it would say "Love" and twitch like the lopped leg of a frog.

Djuna Barnes

#15. God isn't fooled by mercenary goodness I told myself and went back to manic smiling.

Janice Galloway

#16. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

Neil Postman

#17. Across the room, Jason soared into the air and lopped the goddess's head off. Sadly, the head flew right back into place. "Unacceptable," Hygeia said calmly. "Decapitation is not a healthy lifestyle choice.

Rick Riordan

#18. Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!

Swami Vivekananda

#19. When I'm home, I cook my own dinner, all organic.

Big Sean

#20. God's role in superintending our world and our lives is neither absentee landlord nor micromanager.

Adam Hamilton

#21. A good story or a book is all about it's power to hold it's readers still till the very last word of it's climax - complexity in language, dialogues, descriptions, everything else is secondary!

Mehek Bassi

#22. I think all women should learn how to strip. It's a really healthy, extremely challenging thing to do.

Sandra Oh

#23. I do Twitter, but I'm still not great on it - I'm not good at writing short little jokes, so my Twitter's not really a jokey thing.

Cecily Strong

#24. You asked me questions nobody ever asked me before. You knew that I was a murderer two times over, but you treated me like a man ...

Richard Wright